Originally posted by mike fairleigh:
I think that Chapman will have to pass a lot to beat Ulysses. Pratt didn't have the speed to match up to the Tiger running game, and if Chapman is not really fast they better be putting some points up on a real regular basis. Ulysses will come at you in all aspects of the game. I have recently been in Manhattan working on a boat ramp and listen to WIBW splrts. To listen to them, the ONLY 4a teams that exist are Hayden and Holton, with possibly Collegiate (which we now know was wrong)being a factor in 4a, Although Greg Sharpe has said that 4a is ungodly tough this season. The biggest thing about that is that while I hear him mention western teams in all the other classes, I haven't heard mention of Ulysses up to the second round when I stopped listening to the program. I am here to tell you, Ulysses is not a team to overlook. I honestly believe that Chapman has way more than they can handle in Ulysses, especially since they have to go to the end of the river Styx to play them. They will encounter the most hostile crowd that they have seen this season, and it is really easy to lose focus when confronted with the environment that they will encounter both on and off the field.
If Chapman looks at stats and plays the way they've been playing on last second miracles Ulysses will thump them. On the bright side Ulysses has lost this year to a team Chapman didn't want to play (Hayes offered but we took on Blair Oaks instead) Oh well...next year Blair Oaks gets replaced with Pratt which could be fun.
